Taiwan

TAIPEI (AFP) - Taiwan is expected to forge an agreement on financial cooperation with China "soon", in yet another sign of evolving ties between the two former bitter rivals, it was reported Sunday.

TAIPEI (AFP) - Taiwan's constitutional court said it would scrap an "unfair" law that means prostitutes can be punished but allows clients to go free.

TAIPEI (AFP) - Taiwan's government has proposed changing the law to release adult children of abusive parents from the legal obligation to support them in their dotage, the government said Friday.

TAIPEI (AFP) - A strong, 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit central Taiwan on Thursday, the government said, with initial reports stating that one person had suffered minor injuries.

TAIPEI (AFP) - Taiwan said Wednesday that its giant neighbour China has started building its first aircraft carrier, a move analysts have said could raise military tensions in the region.

TAIPEI (AFP) - US software giant Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday signed an agreement with Taiwan to jointly establish a research centre here for the development of Internet computing technology.

TAIPEI (AFP) - A Taiwan court has frozen the domestic assets of former president Chen Shui-bian, intending to use them to pay off a fine he was handed on top of a life jail term for graft, a spokesman said Wednesday.

TAIPEI (AFP) - A Chinese panda expert has vowed to lend Taiwan a helping hand after two members of the low-libido species spent nearly a year at Taipei Zoo showing no inclination to breed, local media said Wednesday.

TAIPEI (AFP) - A high-ranking envoy from China met his Taiwanese counterpart here on Tuesday ahead of a fresh round of negotiations between the once bitter rivals, officials said.

TAIPEI (AFP) - All passengers on a small plane carrying Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou were evacuated after smoke billowed from the landing gear, the air force said Monday.

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Smoke poured from an aircraft carrying Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou after a domestic flight, but the president was taken off the plane and no one was hurt, military officials said on Monday.

TAIPEI (AFP) - Taiwan's former vice-president has accused China of blocking her visit to Egypt for an international forum, a report here said Sunday.

TAIPEI (AFP) - A Taiwanese baseball team has sacked four players amid snowballing match-fixing allegations plaguing the island's favourite sport, according to reports.

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou moved Thursday to ease a political storm over the government's decision to lift a ban on certain U.S. beef imports, saying adequate safeguards are in place to guard against mad cow disease.

TAIPEI (AFP) - Six people were in custody for allegedly rigging matches in Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League, prosecutors said Tuesday, in the latest scandal to hit the island's most popular sport.

TAIPEI (AFP) - Taiwan's efforts to cement ties with former rival China could undermine its vibrant media environment by skirting topics deemed sensitive to Beijing, observers say.

KINMEN, Taiwan (AFP) - Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou called Sunday for continued reconciliation with former bitter rival China as the island marked the 60th anniversary of a key battle against Chinese communist forces.

TAIPEI (AFP) - Taiwan's health minister on Saturday offered to resign over the controversial decision to lift the ban on US beef on the bone despite mad cow disease concerns.

TAIPEI (AFP) - Taiwan said Saturday it has appointed its first representative to China to promote tourism in another sign of improving ties between the formal rivals.

TAIPEI (AFP) - Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer is not a terrorist, Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou was quoted as saying Friday, as he addressed one of the most sensitive issues in the island's relations with China.

TAIPEI (AFP) - Taiwanese authorities are probing child abuse claims against a school that allegedly made pupils as young as six swallow fire to boost their courage, a report said Thursday.

TAIPEI (AFP) - Taiwan wants to extend the life of its oldest nuclear power plant for another 20 years, the government said Tuesday, triggering alarm among activists who fear it could put public safety at risk.

TAIPEI (AFP) - A group of Taiwanese HIV patients are appealing against a US court decision barring them from suing pharmaceutical giant Bayer, their lawyer said Tuesday.

TAIPEI (AFP) - Taiwan has invited Eric Shinseki, US secretary of veterans affairs, officials here said Tuesday, as the island aimed for the highest-level American visit in a decade.

TAIPEI (AFP) - The owner of a recycling centre in Taiwan made a gruesome discovery when he found a decomposing body inside a used refrigerator, according to an official and reports Monday.

TAIPEI (AFP) - Taiwan's military is probing the failure of its largest-ever missile exercise, carried out less than a fortnight after China showed off its advanced ballistic weaponry, a report said Saturday.

TAIPEI (AFP) - Taiwan's second-largest city Kaohsiung Friday opened its annual film festival, featuring a biopic about exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer despite protests from the local tourism sector and China.

TAIPEI (AFP) - Taiwan prosecutors have begun investigating sedition charges against ex-leader Chen Shui-bian after he called himself an administrator for the US government, officials said Wednesday.

TAIPEI (AFP) - Global warming will cause the amount of heavy rain dumped on Taiwan to triple over the next 20 years, facing the government with the urgent need to beef up flood defences, a scientist warned Tuesday.